Tag: present

We never stopped

Posted on by philipdodson

Stop…

There’s no red light, no sign, no need to stop, no one forced us other than we all need to stop as often as we can.

The body has had enough, the soul has had enough, we just need to stop and go with that flow. Both our mind and the collective mind convince us we need to always be going.

We always think we have to go…go to work, go to sleep, go to the shops, go, go, go…go to anything as long as we do not stay here.

Where is the time to just be, to just appreciate being alive, to just look at our surroundings, to just live life? Where does all this going take us? Is it always better somewhere else? If it is, why when we get there, we immediately want to go again?

One day we’ll stop and that’s it. We will have missed the journey and all the magic on the way simply because we never stopped to appreciate the moment. Stop now and enjoy.

Jolt

Posted on by philipdodson

Often we have things that occur, situations that arise, that jolt us into reality. Like we’ve been suddenly awoken from a deep sleep, startled, shaken.

These moments are when we feel surreal. But it is these very moments that are when we are actually fully conscious, and as they are so few, that is why we feel they are strange.

Like sudden amazing beauty in nature, a birth, or something shocking like a car crash or a death.

The thing is if we focus on being present and we experience each moment, we do not have to rely on a jolt to wake us up.